Scraps of Lives II

Jolie:
When I wake up I am still very curious about the rest of Alex's guests, i think that´s my biggest flaw i can´t simly go about not knowing thigs, besides what if say or do something to offend them precisely beacuse i dont know something important about them? So, I continue my research through the always reliable Wikipedia.

Giuseppe Garibaldi: was an Italian military, revolutionary and politician, who also had Peruvian nationality, who, together with the King of Sardinia Victor Emmanuel II, was one of the main leaders and architects of the unification of Italy.
In 1827, at the age of twenty, he was part of the crew of the Cortese, a ship that left Nice and traveled through the Black Sea, Istanbul and Galatia, witnessing the Turkish-Russian war. In 1832, and being only twenty-five years old, he was appointed captain of the ship Clorinda, with which he again traveled the Black Sea. Bad luck wanted this ship to be hijacked by some Turkish pirates. It is said that Giuseppe Garibaldi was about to be shot, but was only wounded in the hand. With the help of the rest of the crew and his cousin, he managed to escape the pirates and escape. After more than six years of absence - exactly seventy-three months - Giuseppe returned to his hometown. But in 1833 he returned to Istanbul on a ship captained by Emile Barrault. It was at this time that he became known for his speeches on freedom.

Wow, he was belligerent from a very young age.

A year later, he participated in Mazzini's Young Italy movement, giving his life to the homeland and winning the captain's stripes in the Piedmont Navy. They nicknamed him Cleómbroto, as if he were the mythical Spartan hero, and he was involved in the Piedmont insurrection, which cost him a death sentence, after his capture and after being considered one of the ringleaders of the revolt.
Forced to flee, he escaped to Nice, passing by the house of his friend Giuseppe Pares in Marseille, where he embarked for the Black Sea and in 1835 he was in Tunis. Returning to Marseilles, he left for South America in the Nautonnier brig, posing as a certain Borrel - referring to the revolutionary martyr Joseph Borrel -, being followed by other comrades of Young Italy such as Captain Juan Lamberti. Once he arrived at his new destination, he settled in Rio Grande do Sul.

Arrived in South America, he contacted other Italian dissidents about the Young Italy riots and became president of the branch of this organization in the American continent thanks to his friend Giuseppe Stefano Grondona.
He was involved in wars for the liberation of countries like Brazil, Uruguay, Nicaragua and Argentina. While in Italy he sought unification, in South America he sought the fragmentation of the former colonies.
Today the memory of Garibaldi is very much alive in Uruguay. In Salto there is a monument to Garibaldi of important scale, built in sandstone and designed by the architect Juan Giovanni Veltroni. This monument is located on Giuseppe Garibaldi avenue, close to the battle area, and has been the object of reminders from the Italian community and has received visits from Garibaldi's descendants on several occasions.

In Salto... Hmmm. According to Alex said, that's where he died. Well ... His second identities has nothing to envy the first.

Ernesto Guevara known as "Che Guevara" or simply "Che", was a Cuban nationalized Argentine doctor, politician, guerrilla, writer, journalist and communist revolutionary.
He was one of the ideologues and commanders of the Cuban Revolution. Guevara participated from the armed uprising until 1965 in the organization of the Cuban State. He held various senior positions in his administration and in his Government, especially in the economic area. He was president of the National Bank, director of the Department of Industrialization of the Institute of National Agrarian Reform (INRA) and Minister of Industry. In the diplomatic area, he acted as head of several international missions.
Convinced of the need to extend the armed struggle throughout the third world, Che Guevara promoted the installation of guerrilla "foci" in several Latin American countries. Between 1965 and 1967, he himself fought in the Congo and Bolivia. In the latter country, he was captured, tortured and executed by the Bolivian Army in collaboration with the CIA on October 9, 1967.
His figure, as a symbol of global relevance, arouses great passions in public opinion both for and against. For many of his supporters he represents the fight against social injustices, while his detractors consider him an authoritarian and violent character.
He participated in the war for the liberation of Cuba from 1956 to 1959. Reaching the rank of commander and sharing a close friendship with the later disappeared Camilo Cienfuegos. Guevara would distinguish himself by integrating his troops with guajiros and blacks, who were then the most marginalized sector of the country, at a time when racism and racial segregation were still a powerful force, even among the members of the July 26 Movement themselves.

At the head of the number eight column, he achieved important victories, among which the battle of Santa Clara on August 31, 1958 stands out. It opened the way for the insurgents to the west and facilitated the entrance to Havana.
During the first years of the Cuban Revolution, he held various senior positions in his administration and government, especially in the economic area. He was president of the National Bank, director of the Industrialization Department of the National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA) and Minister of Industry.
Che Guevara always had a strongly internationalist thinking. Not only was he in favor of new guerrilla experiences opening up in other parts of the world, but he also believed that only by generalizing the armed struggle in Latin America, Asia and Africa would it be possible to defeat imperialism. Guevara openly disagreed with the strategy of peaceful coexistence proposed by the Soviet Union and he himself saw himself fighting in other revolutions.

That's my hero!

In 1966 Bolivia was governed by a military dictatorship led by General René Barrientos, who had overthrown President Víctor Paz Estenssoro and put an end to the 1952 Revolution, of a nationalist-popular tendency, promoted by the MNR.
On November 7, 1966, the day on which his Diario de Bolivia begins, Ernesto Guevara settled in a mountainous and jungle area located near the Ñancahuazú River, in the southeast of the country, where the last foothills of the Cordillera de los Andes meet with the Gran Chaco region.
In the battle in Quebrada del Churo, Guevara was shot in his left leg, taken prisoner together with Simeón Cuba Sanabria (Willy) and transferred to La Higuera where they were held at the school, in separate classrooms. There they would also place the corpses of the dead guerrillas and Juan Pablo Chang would also be imprisoned the next day. Among the belongings seized by the military was the newspaper that Che kept in Bolivia.

His executioner described Che Guevara's last moments as follows:
"When I arrived, Che was sitting on a bench. When he saw me he said: "You have come to kill me." I felt self-conscious and lowered my head without responding. Then he asked me: "What did the others say?" I replied that they had not said anything and he replied: "They were brave!" I did not dare to shoot. At that moment I saw Che big, very big, huge. His eyes were shining brightly. I felt like he was on top of me and when he stared at me, I got dizzy. "

Huh ... Compulsion?!

"I thought that with a quick movement Che could take the weapon from me. "Be calm," he said, "and aim well!" He's going to kill a man! Then I took a step back, towards the doorway, closed my eyes and fired the first burst. Che, with his legs shattered, fell to the ground, contorted and began to spread a lot of blood. I regained my spirits and fired the second round, hitting him in the arm, shoulder, and heart. He was already dead. "

A bag of lies, the man is very much alive.

On June 28, 1997, thanks to the statements of retired General Mario Vargas Salinas and the international pressure that led the Bolivian government of Gonzalo Sánchez to authorize the initiation of investigations, a team of Cuban scientists found seven bodies clandestinely buried in Valle Grande. a single mass grave, and they identified among them, with the support of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, which was the first group that arrived on November 29, 1995, that of Ernesto Guevara and those of six of his men, Alberto Fernández Montes de Oca (Pacho), René Martínez Tamayo (Arturo), Orlando Pantoja Tamayo (Olo), Aniceto Reinaga (Aniceto), Simeón Cuba (Willy) and Juan Pablo Chang (El Chino).

The body, according to the team's report, lacked hands, had a high formaldehyde content, and was wearing clothing and items compatible with those assumed to have been at the time of burial (it was found covered with a jacket that in one In his pockets he had a bag with pipe tobacco cuttings). The anthropologist Héctor Soto carried out the physical examination that, by defining the frontal features, identified Guevara.
Some analysts affirm that the body is not that of Che.

Obviously not!

It's a shame. There's no info about what he does nowadays.

Sir Henry Parkes was an Australian colonial politician of English origin. He was Prime Minister of New South Wales (now the State of New South Wales). He is commonly referred to as the "father of the Australian federation", thanks to the fact that he was one of the first promoters of the federation of the six Australian colonies and also one of the first critics of the transport of convicts in Australia by the British, and was one of the proponents of the expansion of the continental rail network.
Parkes received little school education and was forced to work at an early age as a ropemaker for four pence a day. He then worked in a brick factory, which he described as "breaking stones on the queen's path with hardly any clothing to protect ourselves from the cold." He was later apprenticed to John Holding, a Birmingham-based bone and ivory turner. Around it, he began to associate himself with popular-type political movements that pointed to an improvement in the quality of life and working conditions for the lower classes.
As a young adult, Parkes developed extensive self-learning through reading; He also showed an interest in poetry. In 1835, he wrote his first poems (later included in the first of his volumes on this branch of literature) that were directed to Clarinda Varney, the daughter of a local butcher. On July 11, 1836, he married her and they moved into a room together. Parkes began working on his own in the city of Birmingham.
After the loss of two of his children at an early age and after living a couple of unsuccessful weeks in London. Parkes and his wife made the decision to immigrate to the prosperous New South Wales region. Both traveled aboard the Strathfieldsaye (one of the first Australian commercial passenger ships that had a regular route), with which they arrived in the island country on July 25, 1839. Two days earlier, on the 23rd, they had another of their children. According to Parkes himself, they arrived in Australia with only a few shillings in their possession, and because of this they had to sell most of their belongings while Parkes was looking for work.
He eventually landed a job as a laborer for the banker and physician John Jamison, one of the wealthiest settlers in the entire state, in the town of Regentville, near the town of Penrith. There he enjoyed a low average salary of £ 25 per year or £ 2 and 2s per month (£ 220.67 and £ 2,652.29 respectively, in 2021 pounds) alongside food rations.
During his early years in Australia, Parkes became interested in political conflict. Most notably, he joined the colony's growing autonomist independence movement. By that time, the riots had already turned into a serious diplomatic conflict.
He was also one of the earliest modern proponents of universal suffrage in Australia. Even though he considered his own speech a rather poor performance,it is true that this controversial position turned out to be visionary and would eventually inspire future referents of the suffrage movement in that country. Ultimately, the petition was successful, and resulted in a relaxation of the minimum conditions required to exercise the right to vote.
Parkes also believed in the power of immigration, and his well-known oratorical skills led to him being petitioned in May 1861, alongside politician William Dalley, to England to work as immigration commissioners with an excellent salary of £ 1000 (equivalent to £ 121.7 thousand pounds of 2021). Parkes left his pregnant wife, and five children in poverty, on a rented farm in Warrington. His work was limited to disseminating information, and he spoke at some 60 conferences in cities in the west and north of England and Scotland. He felt he had done a good job, but it is difficult to quantify the impact of his words.
Parkes was known for his commanding personality and speaking skills, despite having a slight speech impediment with controlled aspirations. He was addressing his supporters with simple and realistic language, and pursued their causes with great determination. Some of his acquaintances considered him vain, temperamental and even rude. Despite this, she was warmly welcomed when she met Thomas Carlyle and Alfred, Lord Tennyson during her visit to the UK. He became interested in early Australian writers, having been friends with both Harpur and Kendall. He received almost no formal education, but was trained by reading a lot.

Towards the end of his life he rented Kenilworth, a gothic mansion on Johnston Street, Annandale, a suburb of Sydney. He was given a low rent because the landlord wanted the prestige of having Parkes as a tenant. He died on April 27, 1896; By then living in poverty, a state funeral was turned down, but large numbers attended when he was placed next to his first wife at Faulconbridge, on the grounds of his former home in the Blue Mountains.

His portrait, the work of artist Julian Ashton, is in a public collection in Sydney. The Times newspaper described Parkes in life as "the most imposing figure in Australian politics." Alfred Deakin described him as "although he was neither rich nor versatile, his personality was massive, enduring and imposing, and he relied on elemental qualities of human nature elevated by a strong His portrait, the work of artist Julian Ashton, is in a public collection in Sydney. The Times newspaper described Parkes in life as "the most imposing figure in Australian politics." Alfred Deakin described him as "although he was neither rich nor versatile, his personality was massive, enduring and imposing, and he relied on elemental qualities of human nature elevated by a strong mind. He had the mold of a great man and, although he suffered from numerous pettiness, bites, and flaws, he was himself a large-brained, self-taught Titan whose natural field was in Parliament and whose resources of character and intellect enabled him in his later years to outshine all his contemporaries. "